The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

HAWAII.
Y. NJ. c. A. bookkeeping class at
o'clock this evening.
DR.. G. H Martin leaves for che States
on the Australia.
The tug Pele was not sold on Saturday,
as no one wanted her.
Captain G.. E. G.. Jackson and family
leave on the Australia.
Hon. John A Cummins left for the
Coast on the Zealandia.
Captain Trip, ex-jailor, tripped off to
the Coast by the Zealandia.
Mr.. Justice Fernandez is seriously ill at
the residence of Capt. ]. H. Brown.
The Kinau leaves for windward at
o'clock this afternoon for the Volcano.
In our BY Authority" column will be
found a list of the Tax Collectors for 1887.
A notice to members of Hawaiian Lodge
No 81, F. and A. NJ, appears in another
column.
By the Zealandia the Post Office dis
patched 5,917 letter and ,545 packages of
papers.
1n0 OCedIlIC > steamship AAu9
tralia salts for San Francisco at noon to-
morrow.
The Royal Mail steamer Mariposa is due
on Friday from San Francisco, en- route to
the Colonies.
A meeting of St. Peters Guild will be
held Tuesday evening at the usual hour
and place.
Mr.. A. T. Atkinson, Inspector General
of Schools, has returned from a trip on
Maui and Hawaii.
A large factory at Magdeberg is making,
from coal tar a saccharine which is three
hundred times sweeter than sugar.
Thos. Lundy, the sailor belonging to the
Mohican who stabbed two of his ship
mates, will be tried by court-martial.
We are indebted to Mr.. William Foster,
Clerk of the Supreme Court, for copy of
Volume Hawaiian Reports, which Will
be noticed hereafter.
Twenty-Five shares of peoples Ice ard
Refrigerator Company's stock were sold
on Saturday for 1914 a share. Mr.. James
f. Morgan was the auctioneer.
This evening a reception will be rendered
the Rev DIR. E. G. Beckwith and family,
in the parlors of the Fort-street Church.
All friends are invited to attend
Yesterday there was a heavy downfall of
rain, which lasted for several hours. In
the afternoon it cleared up somewhat,
but the indications are that more rain will
fall.
On Saturday, Peter August Anderson
and Marie Christian Gertz, daughter of
Mr. c. Gertz, were married at St. An
drew's Cathedral by the Rev. Alex. Mack
intosh.
Christian Freist, who was found guilty
of assault on Pablo, the Mexican, with in
tent to kill, has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment at hard labor for eight years
and fined 500.
Messrs. E. F. Wright and F. S. Rou-
mage of New York returned from the Vol
cano on Saturday. They have been visit
ing the islands some six months, and leave
on the Australia tomorrow. Bon voyage.
Last Friday night the store on Queen
street adjoining the Union Feed Co.'s
warehouse, and occupied by Pole with a
jawbreaking name, was entered by thieves
and about $500 and lot OF papers carried
off
The childrens service at St. Andrews
Cathedral yesterday morning was well at
tended and very interesting. Special
hymns were sung and the choir rendered
JacksOn's TIE Deum in F. An address ap-
prOpriate to the occasion was given by the
Rev. Alex. Macintosh.
The N. u. Herald says: From New
castle to Honolulu, thence to Port Town
send British Columbia), and back to Mel
bourne IN five months and three days, is
perhaps one of the smartest trips on
record. This voyage was done by the bark
Aurora which few days back arrived at
the Kaipara from Melbourne, to load lum-
Der for Glasgow. From Newcastle the
bark took 81 days to get to Honolulu,
from there IA days were occupied in reach
ing Port Townsend, and from there to
Melbourne 45 days was the time taken
The balance of the time, of course, was
occupied in landing and taking in cargo at
the poris called at.